Right or Wrong

A gas worker got bogged on a closed road near Camerons Corner earlier this and the local cop told us to not go and rescue him.

I guess you follow the police directions ......... but I'd be asking why .

Cheers
Jim

I would be wary of helping somebody in the resources industry beyond lending the driver a shovel.

I can't begin to imagine the paperwork involved if the recovery went awry and something got damaged.

I'm sure those companies have their own protocols and unless it was life threatening situation I'd say they are best left to themselves

Cheers

You do know it is illegal to drive on a closed road.

So, if it's a closed road , I wouldn't be there , so no issue. Wouldn't know if there was anybody there in trouble or not.
My initial response was what I have done in the past , with some people who have driven off the road for some reason , and got bogged.
Not illegal maybe , but stupid.
So, Ivan , are you having a Sunday stir ????????
Cheers
Jim

The road we were on was open. We were sitting in Cameron Corner and he was bogged on the Cameron Corner road towards Omicron

Jim, I would follow the Police instructions.

When we used to go regularly across the Simpson, we got to know personally the local Policeman in Birdsville.

One time when we were heading out into the desert, it had been very wet, and spoke to our friendly policeman. He advised us that if we came across two Troopy's with French drivers, not to help them if they were bogged.

The Police knew they wanted to head out, but told them they were not to head off, as the desert was closed because of the water, but they headed out around 2am in the morning knowing that they would not be caught.

On another occasion in the Simpson and over the HF Radio, we were monitoring a request for help, again they were bogged and a couple of calls came in offering to help.

All of a sudden the local cop from Birdsville chimed in advising all parties that they were not to go out and help. There was a very short conversation between the person bogged and the police, and basically the cop said, you were advised not to go out into the desert, I know you have ample supples and we will discuss this more in 4 days when I come to recover you.

'We were pretty confident we could have got the vehicle out (we had a lot of sand experience) but decided he knew better ……..and left him to it!"

If someone has called for help, they should be there to pay for the callout when the assistance arrives.

Always lend a helping hand when you can, you never know when you may need one yourself.

Don't think there's to many people on this site that would make the same decision.
Dave.

IMHO it was stupid to attempt the beach at high tide. I would have helped when the beach was safe to travel. Apparently there are plenty of people who think they are more important than tides.

Agree. There’s no need to flog more cars saving a car that shouldn’t have been there unless it’s going to get wet and you have the chance to save it. Otherwise a bit of time spent pondering ones decisions is always a great teacher.
The worst is when you know a car is already lost and people are begging you to help. The two French guys at Rainbow beach last week. One made it, the other got stuck, the first went back to help and they lost both cars. I have left someone’s car in the lagoon at rainbow because I wasn’t about to put mine in saltwater. Theirs was a write off, they just hadn’t yet accepted the fact.

Landrovers don't get bogged Axle, they just fail to proceed. Rover agents comment when a group had a bit of
trouble crossing the Sahara while on a Demo of a new model.
Dave.

Going back a few years now talking about Landrover's, my brother and I were down on the beach fishing there were a couple of blokes up the beach from us who appeared to be bogged, but they were happily working away and they were about a kilometer from us so we set up and started to fish, all is good , about twenty minutes went by and one of the blokes come down to us and asked if we could give him a tow, us being us we do proceed to the stricken vehicle the first thing we did was let his tyres down to 15psi, then we gave him a tow, and got him mobile, we tell him of the beach conditions and tell him as he is heading down the track to take a track off the beach before he gets to the rocks, as he will get stuck trying to go around the rocks. we go back to our fishing gear and proceed with the afternoon enjoyment. About an hour later the same bloke comes panting up the beach, asking for a tow, and telling us the tide is coming in, which we already knew, so we pack the fishing gear up and go down to help. they are in the water where we told them not to go, so we pull them out and all is good, we tell them where the track off the beach is, and we go back to our fishing spot an hour later they both come to our fishing spot asking for help again this time little brother is starting to catch fish so I leave him too it and go to the rescue again, low and behold they are in the same spot that we had pulled them out of before, there excuse was we couldn't find the track and looking at the beach you could clearly see that they hadn't even tried to look or turned around, but I still pulled them out, then went and got my little brother packed up and went home. I don't want to know what happened to them. they were just to stupid for words. My brother caught five fish that evening, me i enhanced my recovery skills. lesson learnt.

Exactly ....... if you are there and you can help , you do. I can think of a few stupid things I have done out in the bush.

Save the judgemental bit for afters over a few beers.

Cheers
Jim